Hanger assembly for ironing boards



April 8, 1958 J. P. GIBSON 3 3 HANGER ASSEMBLY FOR momma BOARDS Filed June 21, 1954 :1 A I W INVENTORY United States Patent HANGER ASSEMBLY FOR IRONING BOARDS Jean P. Gibson, Mission, Kans.

Application June 21, 1954, Serial No. 438,279 1 Claim. (Cl. 248-201) This invention relates to a novel'hanger assembly for facilitating the releasable mounting of ironing boards on doors, vertical walls and thelike so as topermit storage of the ironing board in a conveniently accessible, out of the way place when not in use.

It is the most important object of the instant invention to provide a hanger assembly that includes a socket member for receiving one leg of the board and which cooperates with a pair of brackets having arms overlapping the board and holding the same against the door or wall where it will normally be out of the way and not consume an undue amount of space.

Other objects include the way in which at least one of the arms of the aforementioned brackets is swingable to and from a position releasing the board for use when desired; the manner of providing detents on the swingable arm and its bracket to releasably hold the arm in an operative position; the manner of utilizing a coil spring on the pivot for the swingable arm so as to maintain the detents in intermeshing relationship; and other important objects including details of construction to be made clear as the following specification progresses.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of a hanger assembly for ironing boards made pursuant to the present invention showing the same operably supporting the ironing board on a door.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged, elevational view of one of the brackets and its swingable arm.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on line IIIIII of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on line IV-IV of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged, elevational view of the socket member shown in Fig. 1 receiving one of the legs of the ironing board; and

Fig. 6 is a transverse, cross-sectional view taken on line VI-VI of Fig. 5.

It is quite universally recognized that the storage of ironing boards when not in use is an aggravating problem not only because of the clumsy nature of such household appliance, but because of its space-consuming characteristics when not provided with a proper support.

As will hereinafter appear, the hanger assembly forming the subject matter of the instant invention is not only capable of properly supporting virtually any type of ironing board, but is so formed as to be easily and quickly operated, permitting removal and replacement of the board upon the door or wall that supports the hanger assembly.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawing for a better understanding of the principles above outlined and the hanger assembly includes three component parts, namely, a leg-receiving socket'member broadly designated by the numeral 10 and a pair of spaced, identical brackets 12 and 14 provided with swingable arms 16 and 18 respectively.

The socket member 10 shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 6 of the drawing is open at its top for receiving leg 20 of an ironing board 22 when the latter is in a collapsed condition as shown in Fig. 1, and placed flatly against a door 24 upon which the hanger assembly is mounted. It is understood of course, that the hanger assembly forming the subject matter of this invention, may be mounted on any other vertical surface as desired.

The socket member 10 is U-shaped, presenting therefore, a bight 26 and a pair of opposed legs 28 that are in turn provided with out-turned flanges 30 fastened directly to the surface 24. A bottom wall 32 integral with the bight 26 supports the lowermost end of leg 20 and is likewise provided with a lateral flange 34 that is fastened to the surface 24 as shown.

Since the brackets 12 and 14, as well as the arms 16 and'18 are identical, the bracket 14 and its arm 18, detailed in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, may be described and the substantially U-shaped bracket 14 therefore, includes a bight 36 and a pair of legs 38 provided with flanges 40 fastened to the surface 24 as best seen in Figs. 1, -2 and 4.

The elongated, U-shaped tapering arm 18 overlies the bight 36 of bracket 14 and is swingably secured thereto by means of a pivot pin or bolt and nut means 42 having a spring 44 coiled thereabout. Spring 44 is confined by the bracket 14 beneath the bight 36 and between legs 38 and serves to yieldably hold the arm 18 in sliding frictional engagement with the outer surface of bight 36. A plurality of recesses 46 in the arm 18, and cooperating complemental detents 48 in the bight 36 of bracket 14, are held in intermeshing relationship as best seen in Fig. 3 by the action of spring 44 when the arm 18 is in an operative position overlapping the ironing board 22 as seen in Fig. l of the drawing.

As above indicated, the arm 16 of bracket 12 is similarly mounted for swinging movement, but it is obvious that for all practical purposes it is but necessary to swingably mount but one of the arms 16 or 18 in order to permit release and replacement of the ironing board 22 upon the vertical surface or door 24.

In the invention as shown, when the housewife desires to remove the ironing board 22, she need merely swing the arms 16 and 18 with respect to their brackets 12 and 14 to a position clearing the ironing board 22, whereupon the leg 10 may be lifted from within the socket member 10. Conversely, when the ironing board 22 is to be stored through use of the novel hanger assembly above described, the board 22 is first collapsed, the leg 22 then inserted into the socket member 10, the ironing board placed flatly against the surface 24, and finally, the arms 16 and 18 swung to the position shown in Fig. 1 overlying the ironing board 22 and holding the same flatly against the vertical surface 24.

It can be appreciated'from the foregoing that, through use of the hanger assembly shown in the drawing, virtually any type of ironing board may be conveniently and quickly stored when not in use and when so supported, such household appliance will be out of the way, consume but a small amount of space and positively cannot fail or become otherwise displaced.

It is appreciated further that the three parts 10, 12 and 14 of the hanger assembly can be manufactured and sold as a unit and with but a few simple instructions, can be mounted wherever desired without need of resorting to skilled workmanship.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

In structure for the storage of an ironing board assembly having an elongated, generally flat board element and a leg extending beyond one end of the element when the assembly is in collapsed condition, said structure including a support having a generally fiat, normally upright surface, the improvement of which structure com- Q prises, in combination, a hollow, cubical, open-topped socket member; means mounting the member on said surface of the support adjacent the bottom thereof in a position adapted to releasably receive the outermost end of said leg; a pair of U-shaped brackets each including a pair of spaced legs and a bight therebetween, said bight having a relatively fiat outermost face, there being flange means on each of said legs; fastening means cooperable with said flanges for mounting the brackets on the surface above the socket, said brackets being disposed sub? stantially in a common horizontal plane and spaced a predetermined distance to clear the said board element when the latter is positioned between the brackets during storage of the assembly; an elongated arm for each bracket respectively and provided with a relatively fiat face portion; bolt means pivotally mounting each of said arms on a corresponding bracket with said flat face of the arm in sliding engagement with the fiat face of the bight, said arms being pivotal about said bolt means on substantially horizontal axes and having opposed portions thereof movable toward each other into overlapping re- References Cited in the file of this patent UNlTED STATES PATENTS 361,630 Husband Apr. 19, 1887 516,273 Marcum Mar. 13, 1894 734,428 McGill July 21, 1903 1,244,973 Flanders Oct. 30, 1917 1,590,562 Blonigen June 29, 1926 1,706,235 Johnston Mar. 19, 1929 2,563,749 Rose et a1 Aug. 7, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS 128,749 Sweden of 1950 Great Britain Nov. 15, 1928 

